When a side project becomes the main business, motivation gets harder
began as a and has now become the team's main . The team has spent months working days longer than 10 hours, week after week, and finds it hard to stay motivated despite having a clear goal and believing the tool helps people.
The desired comparisons are companies that truly began alongside someone's main work and later became huge, not merely small companies loosely described as after they succeeded. The team does not expect to reach that scale, but imagining the possibility makes it easier to keep pushing.
Key points
- started as a and became the team's main .
- The team has worked days longer than 10 hours, week after week, for months.
- A clear goal and useful product have not made motivation easy to sustain.
- The team wants examples of huge companies that genuinely began as .
- Imagining a very large outcome helps the team keep working.